On: US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

[wbl]

The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?

[eiaoa → wbl]

> The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?

Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack of globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine.

[jarfil → wbl]

Depends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?

[Tsubasachan → jarfil]

How many wars has China instigated in the last 30 years though? Seems to me the region is shifting to accommodate the new power balance quite nicely.

[tomohawk → jarfil]

Before WW I, France and Germany were each others largest trading partners. Trade and prosperity are orthogonal to war.

[notfromhere → tomohawk]

Trade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.

[oblio → jarfil]

I'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D

[pkaye → wbl]

I'm sure there are plenty of billionaires in China that can do more for them.

[baldfat → wbl]

> due to outsourcing to China

No it is the demand for better working conditions and wages. That helps the local Chinese and American workers. Oh that's right labor unions are evil????

[yostrovs → baldfat]

The demand existed long before the outsourcing. There aren't really labor unions in China.